From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: rms@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: master aae9ac2: Avoid an infloop in shr when filling text with :align-to properties
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 16:15:40 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6de80d48-a64b-4471-ba6a-1b4b54ba1469@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1i1ewy-00063N-69@fencepost.gnu.org>
>>> I was pretty sure I was using the `e' command, but perhaps
>>> muscle memory made me use `M-:' instead?
>> That would be my guess: it happens to me all the time.
>
> This must be a common mistake.
> Should the debugger rebind M-: to be like e?
If you mean rebind `M-:' to do what `e' does then
no, definitely not, IMO. Users need to be able to
use _both_ `e' and `M-:' in the debugger buffer,
to get their different behaviors.
> Make it ask for confirmation?
Dunno whether you mean `e' or `M-:' (in debugger),
but I'd again say no. It's perfectly normal to use
both `M-:' and `e' in the debugger, for different
purposes. I don't see why either should ask for
confirmation.
When you use `e' we already use a prompt that should
make it clear that `e' is being used (provided you
read the prompt):
Eval in stack frame:
If we think that's not obvious/clear enough, perhaps
adding some flash (color? ding? mode-line indicator?)
would help.
That might not help if someone uses `M-:' by mistake,
but if a user gets used to expecting it for `e' then
its lack might be noticeable enough.
Another possibility is to change the prompt for `M-:'
when in the debugger, to make it clear that the eval
takes place in the outside-debugger context, not in
the debugger stack frame. But that introduces a
different prompt for `M-:' depending on the context,
which is maybe not so good.
Do I think this is really a problem that needs
fixing? No. But those are suggestions that occur
to me, in case others think it is.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-24 23:15 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20190823065143.0C45320E34@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2019-08-23 7:47 ` [Emacs-diffs] master aae9ac2: Avoid an infloop in shr when filling text with :align-to properties Stefan Monnier
2019-08-23 7:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-23 8:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-23 9:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-23 9:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-23 12:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-23 18:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-23 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-24 22:56 ` Richard Stallman
2019-08-24 23:15 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-08-25 5:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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